Process Equipment and Plant Design: Principles and Practices

Process Equipment and Plant Design: Principles and Practices takes a holistic approach toward process design in the chemical engineering industry, dealing with design of individual process equipment and its configuration as a complete functional system. Chapters cover typical heat and mass transfer systems and equipment included in chemical engineering curriculums, such as heat exchangers, heat exchanger networks, evaporators, distillation, absorption, adsorption, and more.

The authors expand on additional topics such as cooling towers, extraction, leaching, and topics on process utilities, piping and hydraulics, including instrumentation and safety basics that supplement the equipment design procedure and help to arrive at a complete plant design.

Several sections of the book pertain to plant hydraulics and process vessels, heat transfer processes, plant auxiliaries, and engineered safety, as well as a separate chapter showcasing examples of process design in complete plants. This important resource provides a blend of basic theory required for design with industry practices, making the book a self-sufficient text for process design.

Serves as a consolidated resource for process and plant design including process utilities and engineered safety Bridges the gap between industry and academia by including practices in design and summarizing relevant theoriesPresents design solutions as a complete functional system and not merely the design of major equipmentProvides design procedures as pseudo-code / flow-chart along with practical considerations

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO PROCESS DESIGN 1. General Aspects of Process Design

SECTION II: HEAT TRANSFER PROCESSES 2. Heat Transfer Processes in Industrial Scale 3. Double Pipe Heat Exchanger 4. Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger 5. Heat Exchanger Network Analysis 6. Evaporator 7. Cooling Tower

SECTION III: MASS TRANSFER PROCESSES 8. Interphase Mass Transfer 9. Phase Equilibria 10. Absorption and Stripping 11. Distillation 12. Adsorption 13. Extraction and Leaching 14. Column Internals

SECTION IV: REACTING SYSTEMS 15. Reactors and Reactor Design

SECTION V: PLANT HYDRAULICS and PROCESS VESSELS 16. Plant hydraulics (Pumps, Compressors, Piping and Pipe fittings, Piping schemes for processes) 17. Process vessels

SECTION VI: PLANT AUXILIARIES 18. Process Utilities 19. Plant Instrumentation and Process Control 20. Engineered safety

SECTION VII: PROCESS PACKAGES 21. Design of complete process plants